Elliottgroup

Manager, Core Packaging Engineering New Apparatus

Jeannette, PA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago

API DevelopmentProject ManagementNegotiationProcess ImprovementProcurementLeadershipCritical ThinkingMentoring

About the role

Overview & Responsibilities The Manager of Packaging Core Engineering - Americas provides direct leadership, management, and strategic oversight to a elite team of senior engineering discipline experts.
The role balances technical mastery, operational leadership, and commercial acumen.
The Manager ensures that major auxiliary systems are clearly defined pre-contract and that booked projects meet Elliott's rigorous quality standards, budgetary targets, and delivery schedules.

Direct Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a highly specialized, mid-sized team (5-10 senior resources) of resident technical experts.
Knowledge Retention: Maintain the "Packaging Core" as a prestigious, high-standard unit that serves as a mentorship hub for the broader Project Engineering community.
Global Standardization: Identify process gaps across global operations and implement unique, scalable solutions to harmonize engineering workflows across the Americas, India, China, and Japan.
Quality & Compliance: Develop and maintain departmental procedures and work guidelines aligned with ISO 9001 requirements.
Auxiliary Systems Expertise: Oversee the technical specification management process, clarifying API design requirements for complex auxiliary systems (e.g., lube oil systems, dry gas panels, induction/synchronous motor drives) to enable Procurement to place clean, immediate supplier orders.
Commercial Support & Customer Relations
Lifecycle Engagement: Evaluate and optimize Project Engineering's involvement across the entire project lifecycle, from initial proposal/bidding stages through to final shipment.
International Negotiation: Provide direct technical and commercial support during complex, multi-national customer negotiations, representing Elliott's strategic market position effectively.

Expert-level knowledge of rotating equipment and deep knowledge of global industry standards (e.g., API).
International and domestic travel is required as needed to support strategic corporate objectives, client negotiations, and vendor evaluations.

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required.
10+ years of total experience in an engineering discipline, ideally within the oil and gas or turbomachinery industry.
Minimum of 3 years of direct engineering management/supervisory experience.
Advanced engineering degrees and/or certifications in continuous improvement methodologies (LEAN / Six Sigma) are desirable.

manage hiring, performance appraisals, personnel development, and salary planning.

Foster a highly motivated, accountable, and productive working environment; manage hiring, performance appraisals, personnel development, and salary planning.
Direct, high-level interaction with multinational customers, end-users, and major global auxiliary suppliers.

Ebara Elliott Energy is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the federal, state or local laws of the United States.
Applicants and employees are protected under U.S. federal law from discrimination.
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